Gavin Newsom Blames QAnon, White Supremacists, and Militias For Recall Vote
California Governor Gavin Newsom has been deflecting questions about his recall in recent interviews, blaming the effort on QAnon, White Supremacists, and Militia Groups.
"Let me be more candid and more direct. The principal sponsor of this recall effort wants to put microchips in immigrant aliens. We have folks that are literally part of the 3% militia group -- right-wing group -- that are part of the principal proponents of this effort," Newsom said during an appearance on MSNBC's "The ReidOut."
"It has a lot to do with me, it has a lot to do with everybody watching. It has to do with our values as Democrats. The RNC is the second-largest donor to this effort," the embattled governor continued
Last week, the recall Newsom initiative it collected over 2 million signatures which is enough to trigger a recall election, given that over 1.5 million are verified as valid signatures.
The efforts to recall Newsom started last year over extreme COVID restrictions he placed in California.
In addition to the MSNBC interview, Newsom linked Monday to the “Stop the Republican Recall” website, which declares on its opening page:
A partisan, Republican coalition of national Republicans, anti-vaxxers, Q-Anon conspiracy theorists and anti-immigrant Trump supporters.
According to the Los Angeles Times, they include “peddlers of Q-Anon doomsday conspiracies; ‘patriots’ readying for battle and one organization allied with the far-right extremist group, the Proud Boys.”
Instead of helping fight the pandemic, these partisan forces are pulling a page from the Trump playbook and attacking Californians.
Newsom also stated while interviewing with Reid that he would appoint an African American female to the U.S. Senate if current Senator Dianne Feinstein were to retire.
"We have multiple names in mind, and the answer is yes," he said.